HUDSONIAN CURLEW 

 265. Xumenius hudsonicus. 17 in. 



Darker brown above, than the Sickle-bill ; crown broad- 

 ly striped with blackish and buff; underparts grayish, 

 streaked on the breast and barred on the sides with 

 blackish. This and the succeeding species are summer 

 inhabitants of the Arctic regions, being found within 

 our borders only for a short time in the Fall and Spring. 

 It is found in fresh and salt water marshes, as well as 

 on mud-flats and on sandy beaches of the seashore. 

 They are very unsuspicious and are easily stalked, or 

 decoy very easily, coming to wooden caricatures of them- 

 selves stuck up in the mud, or to crude imitations of 

 their whistles; consequently large numbers of them are 

 shot and they are becoming scarce. 



Notes. Similar to that of the last. 



Nest. Hollows in the ground, lined with grasses and 

 weeds; eggs buffy, blotched with brownish-black (2.25 

 xl.60). 



Range. Breeds in the Arctic regions. Winters south 

 of the United States, migrating both on the coast and 

 in the interior. 



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